Baron Davis' agent, Todd Ramasar, told The Times that they have a verbal agreement to sign with the Clippers.

Davis is expected to sign a contract in the five-year, $50-million range.

"From a basketball standpoint it's always been about winning for Baron," Ramasar said. "This presented a good opportunity to do that to pair him with Chris Kaman and Elton Brand is expected back."

The Clippers can't announce any deals until July 9 when next year's salary cap is determined.

The $10M/per number corresponds almost identically to the amount the Clippers clear by parting ways with Corey Maggette. Given the discount it represents under Davis' market value, it also suggests that we should be hearing word of Elton fairly soon.

UPDATE: The 2008-2009 NBA cap number projects to be about $58.1M. If you pencil in Davis for $13.5M, that brings the Clippers to about $42M. Also keep in mind that the Clippers have exactly five guys under contract, plus Gordon and Jordan.

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What hurts GWS and helps a division rival such as LAC is major. LAC will have BD and EB - wow. Nelson really dissed BD and I'd walk away leaving $$$ on the table too. Season Tickets 08-09?
Last week I thought it a good idea for LAC to sign Andris Biedrins to an offer sheet. WOW

It's obviously been a plan - B. Davis was playing soccer in New York with Steve Nash and European soccer players last week - he joked to a reporter that everyone yelled at him to come to the knicks, but he responded that he thinks he's ready to play at home

It's about time some pro athletes decided that what was better for the team excelling was them making (shocking thought!!) LESS MONEY. I can't believe this is happening. Elton and BD's manhood just went up several hundred notches. I hate it when pros are only about their gazillion dollars. LOVE the fact that EB and BD are about winning and having a solid squad rather than making an extra 3-7 mil. Shit I wish I was in that position, but that says a lot character wise for those guys. Just my .02

This gives the clippers a whole mess of post players, from Kaman down to EB. BD, one of the better post players, will fit right into the Clippers' half court set. He finally gives the Clippers the passing into and out of the post they've been lacking.

If this deal goes down with EB and Davis, any blogger who has bad-mouthed Dunleavy on this site should be barred from attendance at all Clipper games. Without MD, this deal would not happen. Nothing like this or the signing of EB and Maggette years ago would ever happen. MD, the businessman, is getting DTS to open his wallet, again.

Allow me to restate, move MD to GM, but we could use a more dynamic coach. Then again, if EB wants back, MD must be providing enough of an environment that makes players want to stay (not withstanding Corey, who should be let go except for a sign and trade). Give MD credit some credit for that, too.

Uhhhhh, care to elaborate on how Dunleavy had anything to do with this? He was out in NYC at midnight stalking 12 ppg Beno Udrih for whatever reason. This could have easily gone from the best day ever to the worst day had the Kings not saved us all from disaster and resigned that guy. I'm pretty sure Dunleavy is cursing the heavens that we've got Baron instead of Udrih right now. He's got an epic man crush on that guy.

But I think we'll have a team so talented it won't matter how terrible the coach is, as we saw with the Celtics.

I heard "Sam-I-Am" was interested in signing with Denver. Tell you what though ... I certainly wouldn't mind seeing Sam doing his "cajones" dances in the Clipper Red, White and Blue. He signs for the minimum for one more year ... maybe he can coach a little.

Clips got BD! Great decision that will live in Clipper history like drafting Benoit Benjamin, Michael Olowokandi, Darius Miles, Bo Kimble, Danny Ferry, Lorenzen Wright....etc, etc, etc. Clips will play third fiddle to the Lakers and the Sparks. Sparks could probably run them. I predict 20 win season due to injury to BD. Lakers for life...y

Awesome, if this holds true and we end the week with both Baron Davis and EB in the starting line up next year, I for one will gladly upgrade my season tickets. The franchise will have proven itself to seriously competing for the NBA title and that is all that we can hope for as fans, despite any personnel/coaching disagreements that we might have here.

Clippers season seats are great because the Staples Center is actually filled with real basketball fans, not a bunch of idiotic band-wagon jumpers who gets all giggly at the sight of Jack Nicholson.

Eb and BD: two all-stars who each accepted a paycut for the betterment of their team. It's sure nice to have a franchise player that understands the concept of TEAM. But laker fans wouldn't know anything about that.

See, I was going to play it cool, but you just gotta get me started again. Deserve what I get? Shaking in my Nike Kobe Zoom's What about if I bang your momma instead of myself? I heard she was a Laker fan. I can't tolerate your team and I really hate your fanbase.

Trolling? Is this like some geeky tech term or is that the nickname you gave your peter?

Hmmmm....Clips still suck..only a giant D-bag wages an anonymous internet blog war...crawl back in your hole you stump and tell you mother I'll be over to give her a good going over in an hour.

Jerdog, your comments are adorable, like a toddler still learning how the world works..and you can find me at any Clipper home game or any of the bars along the way if you have anything you'd like to say to me about my comments on the dunce. I would welcome the opportunity to berate you in person if you'd like. And ya, that goes for you too, hater hiding behing Clips still suck.

Hmmmm....Clips still suck..only a giant D-bag wages an anonymous internet blog war...crawl back in your hole you stump and tell you mother I'll be over to give her a good going over in an hour.
Tuff guy who wants to add his 2 pesos. Why don't you ask your mom how it was giving me head while I watched Elton Brand severe his achilles. By the way, my mom ain't into girls. You dike.

How does the Clippers offense look like now? Will EB still get most of the touches? does Gordon start at sg?
Are the Clips a higher scoring team with BD creating shots for the rest of the team, breaking down the defense and kicking out to the open perimeter?I will miss Maggette, kinda sucks that he was mis treated for a couple of years.

Lonnie..no doubt dude, the Clips do still have the human handicap in the dunce and I too am not sold on Gordon. To me, his season was an incomplete at best, and given how Livingston worked out, I would have gobe with a more proven commodity and traded down to grab one of the Kansas guys or CDR.

If they are able to ink BD and EB on the 9th, they are definitely relevant again. To get to the next level, the dunce is gonna have to go. Either that or he's gonna have to wake up one day smart.

ESPN, Real GM and other sites are treating the Davis to the Clippers deal like it still wont be enough to compete. RealGM grades this deal, and goes on to say Eric Gordon is like monta ellis with a 3point shot. Al thornton is like stephan jackson with less defense. And that the Davis,Brand , Kaman trio is ok.

While I think Brand,Thornton,Kaman,Mobley,Davis is an impressive starting line up, the rest of the basketball world views it as mediocre.

I guess as a fan I might glorify the Clips roster; Is this line up medicore?

The funniest thing I heard all night...I hate to turn this into "Laker Talk"...but ESPN and the Laker Propaganda TV station (KCAL 9) just reported that Andrew Bynum wants a max contact. He's a nice player and all, and has the potential of an excellent player, but as a max player...get real!

I can see it now, it's mid-November....Dunleavy yelling at Davis on the sidelines.....Baron, slow it down. Dribble at half court until the shot clock is down to 8 seconds. Then, hit the explosive Q ross slashing to the basket.

Kevin, isn't there a way to block this guy's I.P. address or something? He's being childish and disruptive.

I think that we're (we being the Clipper fans that post on this site, not the Laker fans that have absolutely nothing to do with their time, and consequently talk random shit on other people's sports blogs) all very excited about the pick up! We shouldn't have unrealistic expectations for next year -- especially since Boom Dizz's injury problems (knocking on every piece of wood in the house) could easily derail a promising -- but i think that with Baron's leadership and vision the young'uns'll play over their heads, and the vets'll bring what they're supposed to.

Does 5 years seem long to anyone else though? I mean, could anyone see him being an elite point guard into the 4th year of that contract?

why not, i mean cassell was our point guard at 34 and taking us to the playoffs which is how old baron will be at the end of this.

and yes, this "clips still suck" guy needs to go. you lakers fake fans need to go. you and your stupid flags.

the media is making this out like they will maybe squeak in to the playoffs with this lineup. i think they have relaly underestimated these guys. not to mention none of the clippers starters are pushover softies like say uh the laker starters.

Im back....just to add my two centavos. Since people are still speaking my name, I feel invited back. Still flying my Laker flag, still being disruptive. I love the hate.....

Anyways, I don't think Brand is coming back. Payback for tampering is a good thing. He will end up in Sacto after being traded for Artest.

Yes 5 years is too long. Boom Jizzin's beard going to be gray and will match his senior citizen knees. He'll break down after 2 years and your hearts will be broken when he poisions the youngsters on your team when he parties hard the night before (with Jessica Alba, Cash Warren and all his other Hollywood friends....by the way: I heard Boom Jizz was good friends with Jack...maybe that Laker blood runs deep). After he gets bench for going 0-20 from the field, he will mope around and request a trade to the Purefood Hot Dogs team in the Philippines in exchange for Refugio Balakubak. Clippers experiment to try and be the Celtics fail = priceless.